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NOVANEWS "A Canadian woman being held against her will in Saudi Arabia says the Canadian government is not taking her plight seriously. Nazia Quazi was taken to Saudi Arabia by her father in November 2007. Because of that country’s archaic gender laws, women of any age are subject to male “guardianship.” In the 24-year-old Quazi’s case, her father has taken her passport, and refuses to sign an exit visa allowing her to leave the country."

NOVANEWS "An award-winning book about a Palestinian girl whose family suffers at the hands of Nazi settlers 'Hitler Youth'  will remain in Toronto schools after a review by board staff found it “does not cross the line into literature promoting hate or animosity towards others.” Zionist B’Nai Brith Canada had complained The Shepherd’s Granddaughter is “vehemently anti-'Israel'” and had asked that the book — currently part of a province-wide reading program for Grades 7 and 8 students — be removed and was disappointed with the Toronto District School Board’s decision."

NOVANEWS "Haifa District Court Wednesday ruled that El Al airlines must compensate two Arab  some NIS 30,000, for humiliating them during security checks in a New York airport. The brothers were closely guarded throughout the checks, their movements were constrained by the airline's security detail, without anything that would determine them as a security risk. One of the brothers was also told he would not be allowed to board the flight home unless he apologizes to one of the guards."

NOVANEWS "Zionist-government funded Jewish religious school received a fine Wednesday from the Zionist regime for refusing to adhere to a court order made last August requiring the school to end its policy of accepting only Ashkenazi (white European descended) Jews, and not Jews from other racial and ethnic backgrounds."

NOVANEWS "Kam, 23, is accused of appropriating 2,000 documents, 700 of which were classified as "top secret" while serving in the Zio=Nazi army Central Command in 2007. After her army service, Kam went on to work for the Walla news agency. "She`s a Zionist - she`s even opposed to the refusal of orders," a representative of Kam said Thursday, after the gag order was lifted. Kam had "no intention of harming the security of the Zionist regime," he added. "This is a dangerous precedent.""

NOVANEWS    "The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to protest the continued detention of Mosad Soleiman, known online as Mosad Abu Fagr, a blogger, novelist, and activist who writes about social and political issues on his blog, Wedna N`ish (We Want to Live). Abu Fagr has been in administrative detention by order of Zionist regime Ministry of Interior since February 2008, despite obtaining 18 court orders for his release, his lawyer, Ahmed Ragheb, told CPJ."

NOVANEWS The Saudi regime blocked the windows of the women's dorms at the University of Um Al-Qura to prevent interaction between men and women. The female are complaining about lack of ventilation and sun and the hazards in case of fire.

NOVANEWS  Gisha's Gaza Gateway:   The 720,000 liters make even the miracle workers at the Gaza power plant helpless. Below, my story from Truthout on power outages and blackouts. Which don't much affect me, because my building's owner provides evening generator capacity. And if he didn't, I'd go to a cafe across the street and sit there for four hours with a cup of coffee. The people in Jabaliya don't have these luxuries. At night in Gaza, the narrow alleyways of the refugee camps echo loudly with clatter amidst the darkness. The clatter is the sound of small generators. Families in the camps, and many stores in the camps and in the cities, rely on such portable units for electricity during the rolling blackouts that now afflict the Gaza Strip. They're a poor proxy for power from the centr...

NOVANEWS  Israel and the art of bombing civilian targets. What Israel really means when attacking Gaza (ie. revenge): It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks everywhere. These were pieces of cheese, butter and yoghurt — some of the products made by the Dalloul dairy factory in southern Gaza City. Israeli warplanes bombed the factory shortly after midnight last Thursday through Friday night, 1-2 April, leaving the building, all its equipment and the distribution van completely destroyed. “At 12:30am we heard a very loud explosion nearby,” said owner Mutassim Dalloul as he inspected the wreckage on Friday morning. “I got downstai...

NOVANEWS Why can’t the Palestinians just enjoy being under occupation and shut up already? Amira Hass in Haaretz writes about the kind of people one meets across Israel and the Jewish Diapora (“but the West Bank is thriving” types): Israelis really love to hear how good things are in Ramallah. This is the conclusion from talks with the kind of Israelis who don’t demonstrate with Palestinians and face teargas, rubber-coated bullets and beatings by Israeli soldiers, and who don’t spend hours closely watching what goes on at military courts and checkpoints. It’s amazing what Israelis who live 12 minutes from the checkpoints of Qalandiyah and al-Za’im know, even though they have never set foot there and have never seen the wall blocking the sunsets, the watchtowers and the barbed wire fences....